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Best Ranger (US Army) and Our Heritage

Started by ArmyVet, April 13, 2026, 08:36:52 PM

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ArmyVet

April 13, 2026, 08:36:52 PM
This year, the US Army Best Ranger Competition paid tribute to out heritage!

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-best-ranger-2026/

"This year's mystery challenges included loading and shooting a flintlock Kentucky long rifle and pistol along along with throwing a tomahawk axe at a target; a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape event; and then a third event that paid tribute to Paul Revere, who warned colonists in 1775 that British troops were coming, in which the teams had to find hints to escape from three conex boxes, Petty said."

Nice to see our nations' oldest military branch remembers. I remember being a young Sergeant and assigned to the color guard at Fort Bragg. The Command Sergeant Major schooled me on the duties of carrying the Army Flag. Ensure the oldest and newest battle streamers are visible. The oldest, of course, is LEXINGTON 1775.

I got a smile reading about this. I hope you do as well.
The difference between a novice and a master: the novice does it until they get it right. The master does it until they can't get it wrong.

DEH

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April 13, 2026, 08:46:00 PM
Hooah!
-Appleseed: '08-IBC, '09-Red Hat, '09-FT Stewart, '10-RBC,

'09, '10, '11, '14, '15, '16, '22, "25-KD, '24-IBC, Pistoleer™ '24. RFKD '25

-2Cor10:4-5. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, & bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

-Eph6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world forces of this moral darkness and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Quinncannon

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April 15, 2026, 05:58:05 PM
Outstanding, does my heart good!
Dangerous Old Man

Rifleman patch, first Appleseed, N. Little Rock, April 2010.
KD Quaified Talledega July 2016
KD Qualified Manchester, Sept 2016
250 Patch, awarded Father's Day, June 2018
KD Distinguished 50/50, 50/50, Hot Springs Oct 2021
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